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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 118, 期 20, 页码 5289-5299出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp411370y
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- EPSRC [EP/K03135X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K03135X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We consider the nucleation of amyloid fibrils when the process occurs by direct polymerization of fully extended peptides (i.e., beta-strands) into fibrils composed of successively layered beta-sheets with alternating weak and strong hydrophobic surfaces. We extend our recently developed nucleation model (Kashchiev, D.; Cabriolu, K; Auer, S. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 1531-1539) to derive general expressions for the work to form such fibrils, the fibril solubility, the nucleation work, the equilibrium concentration of nuclei, and the fibril nucleation rate as explicit functions of the supersaturation of the protein solution. Analysis of these expressions illustrates the effect of increased asymmetry between the weak and strong hydrophobic beta-sheet surfaces on the thermodynamics and kinetics of the polymerization process. In particular, the application of our theoretical framework to a simple model peptide system shows that lowering the hydrophobicity of one beta-sheet surface can hamper protein fibrillation because the threshold concentration below which the fibril nucleation is practically arrested, and above which the process occurs vigorously-because then each monomer in the solution acts as a fibril nucleus-is shifted to higher concentrations. This effect is entirely due to the effect of asymmetry of the two hydrophobic beta-sheet surfaces on the fibril solubility. In addition, with increasing asymmetry, the nucleation rate of one fibril polymorph becomes increasingly dominant, illustrating that there is a morphological selection between the two possible polymorphs.
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